Ormiston Trust Charity Website Rebuild
A full WordPress rebuild for a national youth charity. Jon worked alongside Ormiston Trust to design the website in Figma, and I translated Jon's designs into a bespoke Gutenberg theme with 43 custom ACF blocks, rebuilt from their previous page-builder setup.
Overview
Ormiston Trust is a national charity that supports young people and families through education sponsorship, youth social action, parenting programmes, and enrichment opportunities. Together with Ormiston Families and three Multi Academy Trusts, their network reaches more than 40,000 young people across the UK.
The existing website used a page builder. Over time it had become harder for the internal team to edit, and performance had suffered as plugins and styles stacked up. The charity needed a faster, more accessible platform they could update with confidence.
Working from Jon’s Figma designs, I built a bespoke WordPress theme with 43 custom ACF Gutenberg blocks, covering programmes, grants, team profiles, the #WeWill campaign, news, and partner content. The brief was clear: the team needed to add and update content as simply as possible, without a complicated editor, so they could publish with confidence and know it would look right.
Initial testing showed a leaner HTML payload and roughly 65% fewer script and stylesheet requests on the homepage, and a much cleaner editing experience for the Ormiston team.
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Key Features
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Figma-to-WordPress Design Implementation
Pixel-accurate build from Jon's Figma designs, with responsive layouts, accessible typography, and a component library that mirrors the charity's refreshed brand across every page template.
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43 Custom ACF Gutenberg Blocks
Purpose-built blocks for programmes, grants, team directories, FAQs, timelines, partner logos, and campaign landing pages so the Ormiston team can publish and update content without developer support.
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Page-builder migration & performance
Replaced the previous page-builder output with lean, semantic theme markup. Fewer HTTP requests, smaller HTML payload, giving the charity a site built for long-term speed and maintainability.
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Content Architecture for a National Charity
Structured templates for impact stories, funded projects, partner organisations, the #WeWill youth campaign, and team profiles making it straightforward to showcase work that spans education, grants, and community programmes nationwide.
Project Gallery
A walkthrough of the Ormiston Trust website: homepage, about page, programmes, and case studies with scroll-driven animations.
https://ormistontrust.org/
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